Indonesia (week 2)

Question 1

Java performance context

Answer 1

Courts

Question 2

Bali performance context

Answer 2

Temples

Question 3

How performance contexts have changed

Answer 3

Went from being a social event to concert performances

Question 4

Dalang

Answer 4

Pupeteer

Question 5

What does the dalang do?

Answer 5

Tells the story, sings, and directs Gamelan

Question 6

What are the Indian elements in Indonesian music?

Answer 6

Wayang kulit and wayang orang

Question 7

Wayang kulit

Answer 7

Puppets; shaddow theatre

Question 8

Wayang orang

Answer 8

Dance theatre; people dancing

Question 9

Pathet characteristics

Answer 9

Each scale has 3 pathet; uses most of the same scale tones, but different melodic-rhythmic patterns and emphesis on different notes; associated with moods and times of day, and transpositions from pathet to pathet are frequent

Question 10

Mahabharata and Ramayana

Answer 10

Two classical Indian epics; “indonesianized” and popularly used in shadow puppetry

Question 11

List four ways that Indonesian music is modernizing

Answer 11

Performance contexts (concert events, shortened performances)
Commercialization (paid musicians, private lessons instead of learning through experience)
New instruments, styles, and forms
New forms of distribution